Flood Myth: Eridu Genesis, Atrahasis Epic

Great Floods have been a topic of many myths throughout time. These stories are mostly about gods or higher powers trying to wipe out or cleanse the population. Some of these myths include; Eridu Genesis, Atrahasis Epic, Gilgamesh, and many more.
The Eridu Genesis is the earliest flood myth. It tells how The deity Enki tells Ziudsura about his plan to destroy all of man with a flood and instructs him to build a giant boat. It floods for seven days and then Ziudsura makes sacrifices and chants to the gods and is gifted with eternal life in Dilmun (Sumerian Garden of Eden) by Anu.
In the Atrahasis Epic (Akkadian), Enlil, a god, thinks that the humans are overpopulated. After twelve-hundred years of fertility he is woken up by the noise of the human race. He then gets all the gods together and causes plague, drought, famine, and then ruined the soil to kill off the
An example is Gilgamesh in which a giant pillar of smoke filled the horizon followed by dark clouds and flood waters. This could be referring to a meteor colliding into the earth in maybe the ocean which would indeed cause a tidal wave or a hurricane of sort that would be widespread throughout the world. Also in 5600 BC the Mediterranean Sea was believed to have flooded into the Black Sea which might explain the influence for myths around that area. There was also believed to be an enormous Tsunami caused by a volcano eruption in about 1500 BC that hit the South Aegean Sea and Crete areas. Most of the areas where the flood myths were present had been hit by tsunamis and sustained heavy rainstorms around the same time period the myths were created. Survivors of these floods would take shelter above sea level which could explain why the always landed on “islands”. The Great flood from the bible has been accredited with being in fact an actual flood because of sediment and fossilization in rocks